Dead passengers don't rate. Driver's former cellmates do.

This law or not, any recurring e-mails are spammy. E-mail should be reserved for one time interactions like order confirmations and of course personal communication. With RSS feeds, user can unsubscribe, suspend and resume viewing updates at their convenience.

I am sure drivers are perfectly law abiding and safe without any background checks and drug testing. It is completely impossible to have part time and internet enabled taxi drivers who are still checked out and issued a license.

Are you seriously suggesting that SF public transit is friendly to visitors unfamiliar with the city? Please explain to me how do I take BART to sunset district.

On the subject of holding public spaces hostage, I wonder what you think of occupy movement and all the other protests, which are especially common in San Francisco?

Practically speaking, if parking spaces are popular, seller will not have to hold them for long. Since the buyer also has the app installed, he/she will have incentive to leave sooner, during prime time, to make the money back.

Will understand that this app is a solution, not a problem. It's much safer to drive to a parking spot that you know will be available and sufficient to fit into than circling blocks for half an hour while paying more attention to the curb than traffic and pedestrians. It's city's fault for not designing streets for both residents and expected number of visitors. They shouldn't scapegoat the app for providing a service that people want.

Specific practices like driver using phone while driving, or curb parking time limits can certainly be regulated. But not the basic fact of people exchanging money for information. Dislike it all you want, but people have freedom to do as they want.

I am sure ebay is full of cheap damaged Macbooks which power on and don't have screen cracks or water damage. Buy for less than $650, resell Surface, profit!

It is well known that all technological progress comes out of cold war. What else could have motivated Americans to re-enter manned space flight. So, PLEASE choose a new state of the art instruction set rather than old Intel or ARM! Something optimized specifically for compilers and modern programming languages.

Baring that, I will gladly take an X64-only clone with no 32/16/real mode legacy. Would at least get Intel to stop sitting on their butts and get interested in progress and efficiency.

A patent on some hypothetical one-tap checkout in supermarket is no better or worse than Amazon's 1-click patent for online shopping. I think so long as we need intellectual property, patents in US are better than copyrights, as they last for borderline sane limited time. Software or physical objects, I think the test should be weather an expert in subject area who is not familiar with a particular patent would be surprised after reading it.

This is a magazine about computers right? If I was the founder, I would be overjoyed that people are reading on star trek-style tablets and saving trees in process. I am sure there are publications that should not go digital only. Amish Times comes to mind. But online is a great medium for this particular one.

Let's talk when practical technologies for electric cars exist and power plants don't run on coal. From what we know today, a combustion engine running on some type of sustainable fuel (hydrogen, biomass, etc) may well be the way to go.

Ability to write hundreds of terrabytes more is nice. But it's reading them back that I am really worried about. Great news for someone deploying a short term cache.

Distribute pieces of the key to a large number of anonymous individuals, such that thousands of pieces are needed for decryption. A popular Linux distro like Ubuntu could run necessary software by default and, in exchange, give users ability to use timed encryption for their own needs.

What's wrong with extension USB cords?